Associate Artists

Laura is a playwright, screenwriter and actor from the East Midlands, passionate about exploring emotion-driven narratives that ask questions about our relationship to place. Her work is focused on untold female perspectives and interrogating the female experience, gaze and voice, exploring what it means to be a strong woman in different contexts and using genre as a lens for storytelling. Laura’s first feature film Lapwing was released in cinemas in 2021 and received positive reviews from The Guardian, Total Film, Little White Lies and Mark Kermode. Laura is a BIFA and BAFTA Connect member, a BFI Academy mentor for young writers, a previous Women of the Future finalist, as well as a judge for the Global Undergraduate Awards in Theatre, Music and Film and an Associate Lecturer in Screenwriting at the University of Lincoln. As a playwright, Laura has had over 50 plays produced nationally and internationally, working with theatres including Hull Truck, the Almeida and Durham Gala. She is a current New Perspectives New Associate and runs her own Midlands-based theatre company, Fury Theatre, exploring “female stories told with fire”. Laura has previously written for EastEnders: E20, and is developing projects for the stage, television and film.

“I’m delighted to be joining Nottingham Playhouse as Associate Artist and can’t wait to start working with the artistic team, meeting local artists and companies and supporting their activities across the region, whilst scaling up my own practice as a writer, actor and producer to more ambitious theatrical spaces and stories.” Laura Turner